Word: successor
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...January 1952, De Lattre died of cancer. His successor, General Raoul Salan, was anxious to reduce casualties and so were his Cabinet superiors in Paris. Salan embalmed 140,000 men in 5,000,000 tons of concrete-some 10,000 forts, emplacements and bunkers up and down Indo-China. The Communists could not get at him. but neither could he get at the Communists. In May 1953, General Henri-Eugene Navarre took over. His plan: increase Bao Dai's army from 200,000 to 500,000 so it could watch the quiet areas while he, Navarre, went after...
...want to serve as a figurehead for some corporation, not did he particularly wish to make a living writing, although he was soon to classify himself, as a "semi-retired literary gentleman." President Eliot had resigned on October 26, 1908 and the Corporation was shopping around for a successor to Eliot. Roosevelt's name received immediate consideration. Many of the Faculty, especially William James were eager to pick Roosevelt, but most of the alumni, basically conservative, opposed him. Henry Lee Higgenson expressed their common opinion when he said. "We need a man of Judgement, and is judgement over...
After a seemly show of reluctance, aging (66), indomitable Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek consented to succeed himself as President. All interest then focused on Chiang's choice for Vice President: he would be, in effect, Chiang's choice as his successor, and the man who would automatically succeed him if Chiang should die in office. Chiang's own choice: Premier Chen Cheng...
...Three. Manhattan producers and theatergoers rate the newspaper critics as strictly as they rate theatrical performances. The top three: the Times's Brooks Atkinson, 59, dean of U.S. daily drama critics; the Daily News's John Chapman, 53, successor to the late Burns Mantle, who writes for the biggest newspaper circulation in the U.S. (2,109,601 ); the Herald Tribune's Walter Kerr, 40. who directs and writes plays himself. The Times's review, says Producer (A Streetcar Named Desire) Irene Selznick, is the "most important because the Times isn't trying to reach...
...IGHAT (I'm Gonna Holler About Taxes), mostly to acquaint workers in its 22 plants with the high cost of Government. A fortnight ago, IGHAT's originators and new confederates from other corporations unveiled IGHUGS (I'm Gonna Howl 'bout Unneccessary Government Spending) as a successor to the original movement...